Thursday, April 01, 2010

Hinamatsuri lunch

March 3 is a Hinamatsuri day in Japan. It is the Japanese doll festival to celebrate girls day, where houses whose girls display a special set of traditional ornament dolls. If you want to know more about Hinamatsuri, it's here in Wikipedia.


Last Hinamatsuri, my friend Tomomi arranged a lunch with some mothers at the meeting room in our apartment complex. She introduced me with some nice ladies. Most of them have younger kids, so it was mothers and small kids lunch actually. I was the only mother bringing no kid, Iki was at school at that time :p. Oh boy.....I almost forgot how two years old kids behave!!! seriously!


We ordered special obento (Japanese lunch box) for Hinamatsuri festival. Very delicious!!


And had sakura mochi for dessert


This is ume (plum) flower. Usually being displayed together with the dolls set. A small, beautiful yet very fragile flower. Just like a little girl.... :)

4 comments:

Krislyn said...

found this post really interesting! doing more reading on wikipedia.

imoet said...

that's good :)

The Diva said...

If I lived in Japan, I would DIE for all the yummy food, and Martin would DIE because of the food huahahahahaha. Seriously. It's the only thing in the world he doesn't eat. Huhuhuhu. I'm soooo drooling looking at your Obento...

imoet said...

:D :D :D tell martin that he can buy western food too in tokyo, meanwhile kamu bisa menikmati makanan jepang yg bisa bikin dia pingsan itu haha